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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04

never closes, unless the proprietor
bursts or retires from business with 9
handsome fortune, which often occurs.
Day and night, bright and early, wet
or dry, cold or hot, the stand is always
open for business, the biggest runs,
however. occurring at early morning
and after dark, as the Long Hotel
numbers among its patrons many peo-
pie who would object to being seen
eating in public market.
The usual rates are coffee five cents,
small dishes of any thing five cents.
large dishes ten cents The purchaser
of fifteen cents worth of any thing,
from plate Of hash and cup of cof-
fee up, is entitled to his choice OF any
of the side dishes or salads and bread
and butter without extra cost
The patrons of a coffee-stand are, of
course. decidedly mixed, and in the
ranks may be found the shabby genteel
gentleman, the broken-down sport, the
newsbov and the hoodlum. and last,
but not least, by a big majority. the
country excursionist. Of late years
this class of customers have increased
wonderfully. and now hardly an ex-
cursion comes to New Orleans that
does not bring its quota of patrons to
the market-house. There they can get
their meals at any hour, and at tr,in
time can get lunch put up for a NOAH
inal cost. Sos
The regular customers of the coffee
stand have certain lingo-Greek to
the outer world, but very plain to the
walters. For Instance: "a stack of
whites means buckwheat cakes; 'Lit-
tie man in the parquet," stew and
sausage; 'sJava and sinkers," or ''mud
and boxing-gloves." coffee and dough-
NUTS Ham and trimmings" ham
and any kind of salad; italian
paste and two collar buttons,''
chocolate and doughnuts; "Short and
warm" sausage and stew; white
chips" potato salad; Red Dead"
maccaroni and Goldfish balls; Little
dog, smothered, sausage; slaughter
house and murphies," steak and pota-
toes; ''Shark Or whale" fish; Rats"
cold slaw; pullman hinge" plain
steak; "Murphies aud rings" pota-
toes and onions, and SO on down
through the list.
When a shabby-genteel patron APP
pears and timidly orders coffee and
doughnuts. the healthy waiter. with q
nasal twang sings out: Java and
sinkers,'' the caterer repeats. Java
and sinkers," and then with flourish
the coffee aud doughnuts are dexter
ously slid before the customer without
splitting a drop of the beverage or dis
arranging the doughnuts from their
position in the plate. The hoodlum
and sport does not give the waiter a
chance to amend his order. but gives
it in the lingo of the market-house--
~ o. Times Democrat
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04

Sherman is trying to do the strad.
die act with a banana peeling unde,
each heel.-Richnaond Dispatch.
The Presidents statement that
more Union veterans are employed un-
der this Government than under any
previous Administration is like one OF
Mr.. Sullivan's swinging hits from the
shoulder, and it completely knocks out
Tuttle and the Tuttle style of blather-
skites.-St. Louis Republican.
Blaine was not in Congress, it is
said, when he was put down as
fright" in 1862 and got $1,000 worth
of railway stock for nothing. That is
so. He did not get into Congress until
the next year, being too busy getting
Spencer rifle contracts ''and SIGH. :"
But he was fright just the same
Detroit Free Press.
If the Republican party of the
country hopes to retain the strength
which it still has, much more of it
hopes to recover the strength which it
has unquestionably lost, it must face
to the front and vindicate its claim to
be party of progress. 1t can not
move forward with eyes averted to the
past or win triumphs on issues that
are dead. Nothing could be more
fatuous than an effort of its leaders to
arouse the section al animosities of times
gone by or to attempt to base its
claims to popular support upon care
for the soldiers of the war of the
Union. N y. Times. IS a5s
How they are betraying their
anxiety and apprehension - those
short-sighted editors-who are striv-
ing to make big fuss out of the Pres
ident's manly and digniied with
drawal of his own personality as a
possible cause of discord at the St.
Louis reunion of the Grand Army OF
the Republic. They ought to see, for
it is plain enough to other people, that
they are telling every body they would
rather have some other Democratic
candidate to fight than Cleveland.
Doubtless they mean well by their par
ty. but they are on the wrong tack
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
AN OCEAN TRAGEDY.
How Captain Langsford Wns Killed by
aaH 81 q Monster SworiE-Fislr.

How Captain Langsford Was Killed by q
ae5f 81 Monster SwortI-Fislr-
A bulletin of the United States Fish
Commission just issued gives the fol-
lowing account. as described in a let
ter to Prof Baird, of the. killing of a
man by a ssyord-fish.
1.-THE schooner Venus is a small ves-
sci of about twelve tons. owned and
commanded by Franklin d Langsford.
of GAINESVILLE, Mass, with . crew OF
three men,, engaged in the general fish
cries off the coast Of Massachusetts,. On
Monday morning, August g Captain
Langsford sailed from home in pursuit
of sword-fsh. About eleven o'clock in
the morning, when eight miles north
east from Halibut Point, i'm Ipswich
Bay, fish was SEEM The captain. with
one man, taking a dory. gave chase,
and soon harpooned the fish,
throwing over a buoy with "a
line attached to the harpoon, after
which the fish was left and they re-
turned to the vessel for dinner. About
an hour, later the captain. with one
man, again took his dory and went
out to secure the fish,, Picking up the
buoy. Captain Langsford took hold OF
the line, pulling his boat toward the
sword-tish, which was quite large and
not badly wounded. The line was
taut as the boat slowly neared the
fish, which the captain intended to
lance and thus kill it,, When near the
fish, but too far away to reach it with
the lance. it quickly turned and rushed,
at and under the boat, thrusting it's
sword up through the bottom OF the.
boat twenty three inches, As the fish
turned and rushed toward the boat
the line was suddenly Stacked, caus-
ing the captain to fall over on his
back; and while. he was in the act of
rising the swoIrl came piercing
through the boat and into his body
At this time another swerdfish was. in
sight near by. and the
secure both, raised himself mp.
not knowing that he was wounded.
Seeing the sword. he seized it,. exclafn-
ing. We've got him, any wagg He
lay in the bottom of the dory, holding
fast to the sword until the vessel came
alongside. while the fish. being under
the boat. conld not be reached, Soon
the captain said: i think / am hurt.
and quite badly When the vessel ar
rived he went on board, took few
steps, and fell, never rising again.
The boat and fish were soon hoisted
ON board, when the sword was
chopped off to free the boat, and the
fish was killed on the deck Of the vcs-
sci. The fish weighed 245 pounds after
its head and tail were cut off and the
aviseera removed; when alive it weighed
something over 800 pounds. Captain
Lansford survived the injury about
three days, dying on Thursday. August
IL of peritonitis. The sword has been
deposited in the United States National
Museum. ~ Washington Star
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
THEY ALL WANT IT.
Some OF the Interests That Are HowIin
for BloOdy-Shirt CAMPAIGN.

Some OF the Interests That Are HowIine
for = Bloody-Shirt Campaign.
There are several interests in the
country which would like to have the
''rebel flag incident" made the chief
issue of the next campaign. Weak
as that issue might be, they regard ii
as strong in comparison with some
others that might be forced upon them.
The big combinations in coal, lum-
Der, salt. glass. copper, iron and steel
would like to fight the rebellion over
again in 1888.
Alien landlords now on the point OF
being driven from the country would
not object to it if it promised to bring
back the party under whose rule they
flourished.
The cattle barons who were elected
from the public lands which they had
unlawfully monopolized would well
come it.
The land grabbing corporations
which have been forced to do justice to
the settler and which have had their
unearned grants forfeited all want it.
The Pacific railroads. owing the Gov
eminent 500, 900, coo which they do
not want to pay, would not object to a
bloody shirt campaign.
The Dorseys, the Elkinses, the Clay
tons and the Chaffees are all yearning
for fight on the lines of a generation
ago.
Every theiving monopolist in Ameri-
ca, forced by recent events to defend
himself against attacks which are in
creasing in force, wants to change the
subject.
Even Jay Gould would not object if
the prospect were that the war issues
would restore the party from which he
bought the appointment of Justice of
the Supreme Court.
The claim agents, the subsidy grab
bers, the naval and steamship rings,
the pension swindlers and old Robson
and j. Warren Keifer all regard the
rebel flag as first-rate thing to scare
honest men with.
The only trouble with the crowd is
that it is slightly too eager. 1t banks
too much on an incident which will not
avail them much. The "reber' scare
kept them in power eight years after
the country was ready to turn them
out. 1t will not suffice to restore them
to power now that they have been
turned out. Chicago Herald.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
A Sweet Voice..

/! There is no power of love so hand to
get and keep as kind voice. A kind
hand is deaf and dumb 1t may be
rough in flesh and blood, yet do the
work Of soft heart, and do. it with a
soft touch. But there is; no, ONE thing
that love so rnuch needs as a sweet
voice to tell what it means and feels;
and it is hardito get andl keep it in the
right tone. One muststa i'm youth,
and be on tie watch nil ht andl day, at
work and Ebay. to land keep voice
that shall. speak at all times the
thoughts Of kind heart But this ia
time when a sharp, vofee is apt to
be got. You often hear bows
and gisls say words, at play with a
sharp. quick tone, as il it were the.
snap Of a whip Whom one OF them
gets rexed, yon will hear voice that
sounds as il 1t were made IN Of ..
snarl. whine and bark. 1t is oftan
in youth that one gets voice or a tone
that is sharp. and sticks to him thronoh
life. and stirs up i'll will and crioa and
falls like drop of gall on tho sweet
joys OF home Watch it day br lay as
a pearl OF great price. for ID will be
worth more to you in dara to come
than the best pearl hid in the sea a
kind voice is to the heart what LIGHT Il
to the eye 1t is light that sinrs ..
well as shines. Train it to sweet tones
now. and it will keep its toue through
life. -Elihu Bu.ritk
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
THE CRESCENT CITY.
A Glimpse Of One of the Market Coffee
Stands of New Orleans.

a GUmpS0 OF On0 OF the Market COuo6.
Stands OF New Orleans.
The New Orleans market-houses
have for years been famed for their
coffee-stands, and hundreds of stran-
gers visiting New Orleans consider it a
bonded obligation before leaving the
city to get from one of these stalls a
cup of steaming Rio or Java, or what
ever name the proprietor considers it
proper to call the beverage he sells.
The New Orleans coffee-stand is es-
sentially a home institution; it never
changes; as it was a year ago it is to-
day-a long marble slab extending
along the outer aisle of the market. in
front of which is row of high revolv-
ing stools, on which the customer sits
and names the dishes he desires for his
meal to an active and healthy waiter
with nasal twang. Some of the
stands are more elaborate than others,
as far rs. decorations are concerned,
although they all make some preten-
sions to ornamentation. The more ele-
giant have mirrors set in white frames,
with gold trimmings for a background,
while the less pretentious have paneled
backs, painted snowy white. Above,
suspended from the wall, are bright
colored chromos of impossible beau
ties, with yariegated and highly-col-
ored dresses. deformed race-horses,
steamboats, racing on the Mississippi,
and full-rigged ships.
In the exact center of the stand is the
larder, if the place where the edibles
are kept may be SO called. 1t serves a
double purpose, as it separates the
white from the colored patrons of the
''Long HOTEL a term applied by those
who eat in the markets. In this larder
sits. a huge copper vessel in which the
coffee is made. 1t is equipped with a
glass gauge, by the aid of which the
proprietor is able at any moment to
tell exactly how much coffee is on
hand, just as an engineer gauges the
water in his boilers. Near the coffee
kettle. potato salad, maccaroni, Goldfish
balls, cold slaw. cold ham. roast beef,
roast pork, boiled eggs and a number
of other substantials and delicacies are
temptingly displayed on huge dishes.
while above on large cardboard in
big letters the bill of fare is printed
with the price of each dish in plain
figures. a. ss
The service at all stands is identical
thick, heavy coffee-cups without
handles, saucers to match. two sizes of
plates, big and little, forks with three
prongs. black-handled knives. and
pewter spoons. Common bottles with
quill inserted in the cork contain the
mustard. pepper-sauce, catsup. etc.
The sugar dishes are peculiar, consist
ingof large china vessels with covers of
German silver, which work on hinges
that they may be closed when not in
use. This completes the outfit of q
coffee-stand. and. with brace OF
walters and stock of provisions. the
proprietor is ready for business.
When coffee-stand 10 once opened il
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
READING FOR THE YOUNG
a eooD-FoR-NoTHIne LAD

$50 y -
There was once lad who really hated
Whatever he had to do
So, id1e-hearted, away he started
To roam the wide world through.
With hands in his pockets whistle. whistle,
He strolled through field and town,
And was sometimes fed on good white bread.
And sometimes fed on brown.
The wood-thrush when she saw him coming
. Straightway became distressed,
Fearing that he In the white-thorn tree
Would find her hidden nest
The little red squirrel whisked and scampered
Up IN the topmost limb;
And the crow when he saw called out: .'Cawi
TIL keep my eye on him r.
The bees worked bIithely about the clover;
And on their way to school
Went children, singing, and gaily bringing
OF flowers their hands full.
Creatures active, busy and happy
He saw at every hand;
And he was the only idle and lonely
One in all the land. &
He unused: aWhy should the thrush and
= 3. squirrel
Dread even sight of me-
And why does the crow gaze at me so
From the top OF his high trees
Though of work tired, and it was hateful,
Yet this is quite as bad;
For no one cares where goes, how fares,
A ood-for-nothing lad,''
-Nrs. Clara Dofy Bates, in Our Littls Oaes- =
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
GENERAL.

Recently prominent business
man of New Haven, Conn, applied
for town aid for an employee at 81. SO per
week. His explanation was that the
man was too i'll with rheumatism to do
much work, but investigation showed
that he was employed regularly. but
only received five cents per day.
-Blobson (indignant 81 declare.
that band is trying to play. I would
like to kick myself for subscribing to
the thing Mrs. B. Crushing to the
window mo, faint the bandit It's
Sprigg's tin-peddler cart. The horse
is running away. "-Burtinaton Free
Press.
Country roads these days are made
beautiful by the many wild roses that
grow along them. The road known as
Lucas Turnpike is rich with a profu-
sion of wild roses. 1t is almost one
continual bed of roses for miles after
crossing the line of the town of Hurley,
Kingston en- ~ freeman.
Ida Smith, who lives in Brooklyn,
became angry with Max Archer. and
expressed her Misrepresentation by the
highly novel means of throwing pot
full of boiling potatoes over him. As
Ida didn't have three hundred dollars
to put up as surety of future abstinence
from such unique exhibitions of tenn
per. she languishes in jail.-DetroH
Free Press.
Extraordinarily large catches OF
sardines have been made this season at
Dark Harbor pool Grand Manan. The
place is said to be land-locked, and the
Wsnder is how the fish got in there
Already, it is stated. over two hundred
hogsheads of sardines have been
caught, and there seems to be just as
many left in the pool.
DIR. Farr favors 100 years for the
tenure Of life, but makes these divi-
sions: Boyhood, 10 to Is; youth, Is to
25; manhood, 25 to 55; muturity, SIS to
Is; ripeness, Is to IS, and old age from
IS upward. Prof. j. r. Buchanan
places the attainable limits of longev-
ity at 140, and he cites the fourteen
people of that age found in Italy by
census under one of the later Roman
emperors.
Darling" he whispered, as they
were entering her house after having
attended the show at the dime museum
in full dress, 'why do you resemble
this knob?'' With fitful smile she
gave it up, and, like an interlocutor at
a minstrel show, asked, ''Why?"
because you are something to adore. !"
When she had colored up and coldly
hurried into the house, he realized he
had overdone it Washington Hatchet.
A carat Of gold received it's name
from the carat seed, or seed OF the
Abyssinian coral flower. This was at
one period made useful when gems of
gold were to be weighed and SO came
about the peculiar and now general use
of the word. Twenty-Five carats fine
means that out of twenty four parts
twenty two are gold and all the rest
alloy. -Rarper's Bazaar.
Nine hundred and ninety persons
in thousand would say that q baby in
the cradle would be likely to live long
er than man of IS. but statistics prove
indisputably that 500 in every !, ZOO in.
fants die before the age of 5 years is
recorded, while out of 1000 healthy
men aged 65 more than 500 of them will
be alive in five, or in ten years, or
even longer time. So it will be seen
that man of 65 may be considered
younger than an infant as far as his
chances of future life are concerned.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04

So he waited With what patiercS hs
could, and presently, after wilss
seemed to him hours and hours. the
dlinncr-bell rang He sprang up ana
stood waiting. but no one came. Gould
/ it be that they had forgotten him. Or
did they mean to make him stay al
ways?
He heard his mother come out to the
door, and be called to her; but she did
not answer. Re never knew her not
| to. answer his call before. He heard
his father come in, and he called
again and again to him. but no an-
swer came.
He gave up at last. and throwing
himself down upon the floor, cried as
if his heart would break.
They're just horrid. and I won't
love them any more. nerer. May be
I'll starve to death up here-Tm some
starved now-and then I guess they'll
be sorry"
"You are the one that ought to be
sorry. and you know it, too. You see
now how nice it is not to be an
swered, don't youp" whispered Con-
science. pretty sharply.
It was a very uncomfortable way OF
looking at the matter, but in his heart
Robin knew it was so. and he began to
feel sorry and ashamed.
Il wish I had answered mnmma, ]
do
Half an hour and then an hour,
went by, but never in all his little life
had Robin known such long hours
Il want to see my mother," no
sobbed.
Just then he heard her step
'.Mamma-oh, mammal he called,
springing to the door. please let me
outp TIM so awful sorry. and I want
to- see you so!''
Well you would hare thought that
he had been gone for months. to- have
seen him hug and kiss his mother; aapd'
truth to tell, mamma was just about
as glad to see him.
II don't believe I'll ever be so
naughty again. he said kissing mann
ma for the twentieth time. '.Tll, como
the very first time you call me, always
you see if DON'T
And think he always did. IL ever
he was tempted to inger one thought
of those long. dreary hours. whenno one,
answered his call, FASTENED his steps.
in wonderful manner. Kate s.. Gales.
IN Golden DGys
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"A female orchestra, all players o,
brass instruments. is creating sensa-
ton in Dresden. t
twenty-five thousand bar-maids
are employed to draw "'alf-and-' alf y
for the thirsty of London. il
/ The German Minister of War offers
prize of 5000 marks for the best
model of an improved cartridge-box.
"A ton of ropes made from the hair
OF the women of Japan is used in
building the $4,000. 900 Buddhist tenn
pie at Kioto.
AT Trebizonde, on the Black Sea,
the Turkish exporters of hazel-nuts
fumigate them by sulphur to give them
finer color
1t is said that deaths from apo
plexy are more frequent in Bordeaux
than in any other city in the world,
owing, perhaps. to the bibulous habits
of the Bordelais.
There were 60. G36 births in Par is
last year. There were 57,092 deaths
during the same period, of which
more than 10000 were due to pull
monary diseases.
AT Paris. the other day. gold
coin of the reign of the Emperor Con-
stantine was bought by the National
Library for f452. an enormous sum,
even if the coin be really unique.
AT the recent great tulip exhibit
ton at HARLEM, in Holland. several
specimens of black tulips were shown.
The existence of tulip of this color
has hitherto generally been doubted.
There is beautiful uncertainty
about the value of the copper cents of
Mexico. In Vera Cruz, for instance.
it takes 104 of them to make one dollar.
while in Chihuahua ninety-five will
pass for one dollar.
The Suez Canal Company has ar
ranged to pay ESQ. 900 for widening the
channel. 1t is hoped in this way to
shorten the passage through the canal
by twenty-four hours at least.
"A site of fifty acres has been taken
for the Gordon Memorial Boys Home
in London. A building will be put up
to accommodate 100 boys. and the cost
of maintaining the establishment will
be 500, year.
According to the statement of En-
glish journals, the apples received in
England from this country, last year.
sold for .e700. 900, or nearly So, 10000
OF this amount the Canadian fruit
brought S400 900. -Vtcs's Magazine.
Next spring Russia will begin on
an Asiatic trunk railway to stretch
from Tomsk across Siberia to the
Pacific by way of Irkutsk. Stretinsk,
Khankat or Hankoi and Vladivostok.
1t is expected to be completed in five
years.
Secretary Wichman of the Prussian
Reichstag appears to be unusually alb
sent-minded. even for German. The
other day during the roll-call he read
his own name and, not hearing an
answer, he repeated it in loud and
distinct tone. Not until the laughter
of the members awoke him from his
reverie did he become aware of his
mistake.
TT turns out" says London Truth,
'fhat the famous etching by REM
brandt of Christ Healing the Sick
known as the hundred-guilder piece
which was sold for FL. 800 at the sale
of the Buccleuch collection. has been
bought for the British Museum. There
are only eight impressions of this etch-
ing in existence. and the last which
came into the market Tin 1869
realized FL. 100. Public Opinion.